7526 4 3 econsultancy_xml <p>The feature appears in the search box at the top of every Yahoo! search page.</p> <blockquote> <p> <em>"Not only does this limit the number of words you need to type into a query, it may also present similar queries to shorten your searching time and get to what you're looking for quicker," </em> <a href="http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000469.html">Lee wrote on Wednesday</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p>But several users yesterday reported the <em>"disable"</em> feature, which turns off Search Suggest, did not work.</p> <p>Within hours, Lee replied: <em>"It looks like there may be a bug here.</em></p> <blockquote> <p> <em>"I have spent more time looking into it after seeing several comments here and elsewhere, and I was able to replicate the issue under some circumstances.</em> </p> <p> <em>"We will start working on a fix immediately - our apologies for the inconvenience."</em> </p> </blockquote> <p>Search Suggest is based on dynamic Ajax database calls and is often dubbed "live search" across other sites.</p> <p>Google implemented the same feature, named <a href="http://labs.google.com/suggestfaq.html">Google Suggest</a>, in its beta Labs in 2004; the feature was later added to the Google homepage.</p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph>The feature appears in the search box at the top of every Yahoo! search page.</Paragraph> <Block> <Paragraph> <Quote>"Not only does this limit the number of words you need to type into a query, it may also present similar queries to shorten your searching time and get to what you're looking for quicker," </Quote> <Link URL="http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000469.html" Window="New">Lee wrote on Wednesday</Link>.</Paragraph> </Block> <Paragraph>But several users yesterday reported the <Quote>"disable"</Quote> feature, which turns off Search Suggest, did not work.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>Within hours, Lee replied: <Quote>"It looks like there may be a bug here.</Quote></Paragraph> <Block> <Paragraph> <Quote>"I have spent more time looking into it after seeing several comments here and elsewhere, and I was able to replicate the issue under some circumstances.</Quote> </Paragraph> <Paragraph> <Quote>"We will start working on a fix immediately - our apologies for the inconvenience."</Quote> </Paragraph> </Block> <Paragraph>Search Suggest is based on dynamic Ajax database calls and is often dubbed "live search" across other sites.</Paragraph> <Paragraph>Google implemented the same feature, named <Link URL="http://labs.google.com/suggestfaq.html" Window="New">Google Suggest</Link>, in its beta Labs in 2004; the feature was later added to the Google homepage.</Paragraph> </FormattedContent> 2007-07-13T09:47:00+01:00 0 1 econsultancy_xml <p> <strong>Yahoo! engineers had to start fixing a bug in a new live search feature, just a day after announcing the addition.</strong> </p> <p>Yahoo! Search's Kevin Lee introduced the new Search Suggest function, which offers suggestions on search terms as a user types.</p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph> <Emphasis>Yahoo! engineers had to start fixing a bug in a new live search feature, just a day after announcing the addition.</Emphasis> </Paragraph> <Paragraph>Yahoo! Search's Kevin Lee introduced the new Search Suggest function, which offers suggestions on search terms as a user types.</Paragraph> </FormattedContent> false 1498 363797 Yahoo! searchers suggest fix to buggy new feature false 2007-07-13T13:00:00+01:00 yahoo-searchers-suggest-fix-to-buggy-new-feature 2009-04-28T22:54:03+01:00 2009-04-28T22:54:03+01:00 647